Re: [newbie] (...) reinstaling MDK 7.1
I have had a similar problem with LM 7.0. I could not re partition the drive with msdos fdisk. What I learned was my partition table was corrupted. I ended up using partition magic to restore the mbr. It is non destructive so you dont have to lose any data already on your disk.
Re: [newbie] Re: (...) is it not Xconfigurator (with a small c)?
Did you try XF86Configurator?
Re: [newbie] Terminalogy
intel based prossessor, 386, 486, or pentium.
[newbie] Partition table problems
I have installed LM 7.0 on my computer and am dual booting with win98. I am having trouble with the partition table. I have a 23g harddrive. I first setup the new drive with the Maxtor setup disk. I created one 21. something gig partition (what the drive ended up being after being formatted) and installed windows 98. I then booted with the LM 7.0 disk and re-sized my windows partition to 4 gig. I created a 10Mb /boot partition, a 4g / partition, and a 250Mb swap partition. I made the remaining approximately 13g partition a fat32 partition. I also have a second harddrive. It is a 6gig drive that is set up as a fat32 primary partition. My problem: when I boot into windows the 13g partition is only seen as a 9g partition. I ran scandisk and set the options to automatically fix errors. It finished (MUCH later) with no errors. The partition is still only seen as 9g. (I can write files to this partition while in windows) If I boot into Linux, I show errors, while booting, that hda8 has wrong fs type, bad block, or too many mounted file systems. Then on my KDE desktop I can see the icon for hda8 is different than the icon for hdc1. The hda8 partition is obviously not mounted at boot and therefore I am getting the icon that symbolizes the unmounted partition. What happened to my other 4 g?
Re: [newbie] No-one answers ?
You may also try hitting the clrl alt and + keys at the same time. This will change the resolution. I have always found this to work. - Original Message - From: "Liaw, Andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:47 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] No-one answers ? -- From: Kevin A Sadler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] No-one answers ? Hi yoall. What's happened. No-one had my problem before ? On 21/10/00 I put forward the fact my desktop has expanded its picture to the size of my wall so all I can see on my puny 15" screen are the Application starter and Panel buttons. I have reinstalled about six times, partitioned, formatted over and over but it still looms brightly. If I could afford a 30' x 20' monitor I would have it all over yoall but I can't so I would like some help to get my graphic view back to rather normal. Thanks, anyone ! Kev Sadler It sounds like the desktop is larger than the screen resolution. If you try moving the mouse pointer to the corners, does the desktop "shifts"? If this is the case, you need to figure out a way to get to a higher resolution mode (check the manual or tons of info on the net) or set the virtual desktop to the same size as the screen resolution. Hope this helps. Andy
Re: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0
Does your BIOS see the hard drive you are trying to install to? Is there already an OS on the drive and working? - Original Message - From: Duval, Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Error installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 During the install when it prompts me wether this is an install or and upgrade I get an error that no partitions could be found. How can I create partitions? I get this error very early during the setup (before I get into the graphical installer "Only the insane have strength enough to prosperOnly those who prosper truly judge what is sane"Dominique DuvalService Desk AgentGreat West Life Assurance Co.[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 When you ran fdisk did you create any partitions? You need to have an existing partition table for the LM installer to work from. When you fdisk you need to create (and set active) a primary partition. You may also create an extended partition if you like. You need to reboot after running fdisk and creating a partition. - Original Message - From: Duval, Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ; Simon Martin Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 I tried doing fdisk and leaving no partition no help -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:09 PM To: Simon Martin Cc: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
